And Wipe Your Hands on his Canary Bird

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The director is the artist of the cinema.

A Cast of directors and their quotes:

Second chances are as rare in Hollywood as ski tows. – Mervyn Le Roy

If Shakespeare were writing Hamlet for me, I’d make him cut a lot of those speaches – too long. – Mervyn Le Roy

Master Bastard, if you please! – Mervyn Le Roy

I can honestly say that I never made a picture I didn’t like. – Marvin Le Roy

I think the true work of an artist can only be accomplished after he is fifty, when he has enriched his life with accumulated experiences. – Kenji Mizoguchi

You call this a script? Give me a couple of $5,000-a-week writers and I’ll write it myself. – Joe Pasternak

I believe that an influence ceases when the person receiving it becomes aware of it. – Alain Renais

You can’t go around the theaters handing out cards saying, “It isn’t my fault.” You go on to the next one. – John Sturges

The illusion of reality is what I look for, not reality itself. -–Josef Von Sternberg

No, not ten years ahead. I was twenty years ahead of my time. – Josef Von Sternberg

You can seduce a man’s wife here, attack his daughter, and wipe your hands on his canary bird; if you don’t like his movie, you’re dead. – Josef Von Sternberg

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The director is the artist of the cinema.

A Cast of directors and their quotes;

My greatest mistake was ever to have compromised. My greatest achievement has been to survive. – Abel Gance

A film is the world in an hour and a half. – Jean-luc Godard

Directors are people too short to be actors. – Josh greenfeld

I love to copy – myself. – Howard Hawks

I demand of a film what many North Americans demand of drugs. – Alexandro Jodorowsky

I wanted to make a film which would be entertaining enough to eat. – Akira Kurosawa

Directors are often blamed: “Why did you do this? And why did you do that?” But nobody ever says: “Even a director has to eat. – Fritz Lang

I make films the way I make love. I think it is a mistake for a director to trust someone else with the camera work. It’s as though Van Gogh might have given his brush to someone else. – Claude Lelouch

Staring at Life through Fields of Mayonaise

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The director is the artist of the cinema.

A Cast of directors and their quotes;

I stare at life though fields of mayonaise. – Mel Brooks

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. – Mel Brooks

After forty, we are responsible for our own faces. – Jean Cocteau

Cinemascope? The next time I write a poem, I shall use a larger piece of paper. – Jean Cocteau

Editing is the most important point in a picture; it is the director, really writing the picture with his editing. – Costa-Gavras

Give me a good script, and I’ll be a hundred times better as a director. – George Cukor

God exists. But his name is chance. – Alexander De Sica

The essential is sufficient. – Carl Dreyer

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The Brillo of Hollywood

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The director is the artist of the cinema.

Billy Wilder

I have a vast and terrible desire not to bore.
I do not believe in wasting money. On the other hand, nobody is going to go and see a picture simply because it came in under budget.

Make the subtleties obvious.

I’d worship the ground you walked on if only you lived in a better neighborhood. Keep it out of focus. I want to win the foreign-picture award.

About Billy Wilder – “Beneath Billy Wilder’s aggressive gruff exterior is pure Brillo.” – Harry Kurmitz

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Cue the Red Sea!

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The director is the artist of the cinema.

Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959)

The public is always right.

The way to make a film is to begin with an earthquake and work up to a climax.

Cue the Red Sea!

The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?

When the banks came into the picture, troubles came in with them. When we operated on our own money, there was joy in the industry. When we operated on Wall Street money, there was grief in the industry.

My next activity is in the hands of the Lord—and Paramount.

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